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Crayon vs Applesauce - What's the difference?

crayon | applesauce |

As nouns the difference between crayon and applesauce

is that crayon is a stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing while applesauce is (us) apple sauce.

As a verb crayon

is to draw with a crayon.

As an interjection applesauce is

(slang|us|dated) nonsense!.

crayon

English

(wikipedia crayon)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
  • * Dryden
    • Let no day pass over you without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon .
  • (dated) A crayon drawing.
  • * 1885 , Littell's Living Age (volume 167, page 187)
    • But on the wall hung two fine crayons , representing Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette — pictures which she recognized as having hung in the corridor of the Tuileries — and in front of them were burning two candles on a species of rude altar.
  • (dated) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To draw with a crayon.
    • ----

    applesauce

    English

    Alternative forms

    * apple sauce (UK)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (US) Apple sauce.
  • * 1955 , , page 101
    • Because Mother had been so busy making applesauce , dinner was a little late that night.
  • Nonsense, balderdash, bunk, piffle.

    • Derived terms

    * applesauce cake * criss-cross applesauce

    Interjection

    (en-interj)!
  • (slang, US, dated) nonsense!